And you think you have problems with your eyes...

This poor guy was minding his own business & he felt an eye irritation.

Thinking that it was just regular dust, he started to rub his eye, in an effort to remove the dust.

Then his eyes got really red, so he bought some eye drops from the pharmacy. A few days passed and his eyes were still red and seemed a little swollen.

Again he dismissed it as dust & continued rubbing, hoping it would go away.

As the days went by, the swelling of his eye got worse & the redness increased until he decided to go and see a doctor for a check up. The doctor immediately wanted an operation, being afraid of a tumor growth or cyst.

At the operation, what was thought to be a growth or cyst, actually turned out to be a.. Link will not work... posted lower.

actually turned out to be a live worm. What was thought initially to be just mere dust actually was an insect's egg......

Last edited by michaelskis; 02 Jul 2004 at 2:20 PM.

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

Bizarre as it may seem, the preceding photos are authentic, although the same cannot be said of the accompanying narrative, which is a fabrication.

We don't know who assembled the emailed collage, but after a painstaking search we did find the source of the individual images, an article entitled "Anterior Orbital Myiasis Caused by Human Botfly," published in the July 2000 number of the Archives of Ophthalmology, a journal of the American Medical Association.

"Myiasis" is the medical term for a maggot (fly larva) infestation of a living body. In this case, the patient was a 5-year-old boy treated by U.S. Air Force surgeons in a rural area of the Republic of Honduras. "The respiratory pore of a late-stage larva of the human botfly (Dermatobia hominis) was located in the anterior orbit," says the article abstract. "The larva was gently removed under general anesthesia through a small incision in the conjunctiva." The patient was apparently none the worse for wear.

Ok I am just going to post the pic... Close your eyes if you do not want to see it...

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

Remember this motto to live by: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO- HOO what a ride!'"

I apologize but would like to contest the yellow card in due to even distribution of ruling. My attempt to create a link earlier was unsuccessful.

After seeing the pic in the “donate your body” thread that showed a dead and preserved body and fetus that had been partly removed, shows not only gross nature, but also nudity, and since that was considered appropriate, I felt that this would be as well.

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

I apologize but would like to contest the yellow card in due to even distribution of ruling. My attempt to create a link earlier was unsuccessful.

After seeing the pic in the “donate your body” thread that showed a dead and preserved body and fetus that had been partly removed, shows not only gross nature, but also nudity, and since that was considered appropriate, I felt that this would be as well.

Didn't see that one. I'll get rid of that now.

Be glad I restored your neverending beer thread, though.

Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey